Introduction
Several library forums have discussed the issue of succession planning. The University Library team conducted a SWOT analysis at the West Africa Millennium Development Goals [MDGs] Library Capacity Building Intervention Workshop held in June 2009 at the Erata Hotel in East Ryan, Ghana. Although there are several advantages. Identify [including qualified staff, qualified professionals, experienced staff, organized structures, influential positions of university librarians as part of senior management, and formal professional committees/organizations/associations Availability] One of the other eight people's significant weaknesses is the aging librarian's. The library of the University of Sierra Leone's Fula Bay College [FBC] is no exception. A considerable number of senior library staff will retire between 2018 and 2026, and only a successful and successful planning and planning policy can save the crisis. It is believed that Alexander the Great never had a strong succession plan, and the consequences of bitterness were the disintegration of the distant empire he was trying to build.
Definition of inheritance plan
The succession plan is about replacing the employees who eventually leave the organization, including death, transfer, resignation, termination, cancellation, retirement, and many other factors. According to Blakesley, it "may be increasingly seen as part of the strategic planning process when we decide what we must do and what we can give up, and how to redistribute, retrain and re-adjust the people who remain in our organization. "[Page 34, 2011]. The biblical ban [Paul vs. Timothy] is appropriate: "You have heard what I have heard in many witnesses, as well as loyal people, and can teach others."
[2 Timothy 2:2, James King Edition].
Angela Bridgland [1999] believes that personnel and positions should be systematically reviewed to ensure that an organization's strategic plan is implemented. Although there is a lot of discussion about "Our professional ageing" [Blakesley, 2011, p. 32], we are reminded that "the baby boomer generation is reaching retirement age is not news" [Bermes, p. 66]. In 2001, during a joint meeting of the African University Library Standing Conference, the Western Region [SCAULWA] and the West African Library Association [WALA] in Accra, Ghana, the authors commented on the rapid decline of the number of professionals in Sierra Leone's librarians. The situation at the Fula Bay College Library is a microcosm of the national problem. Many professional librarians in the country have retired from the profession. Some of the dynamic figures or household names include Mrs. Gladys Jusu-Sheriff, Mrs. Deanna Thomas [deceased], Mrs. Gloria Dillsworth, Mrs. Olatungie Campbell, Mrs. Marian Lisk, Mr. Victor Coker, Mrs. Alice Malamah-Thomas, Mr. ANT Deen [already Therefore, Mrs. Yeama Lucilda Hunter, Mrs. Abator Thomas, Professor Magnus John and so on. This leaves a big gap in the profession, and the current number of professional librarians is very small.
Status of FBC library staff involved in succession planning
The FBC Library has three main categories of staff, Junior, Advanced Support and Advanced.
Senior employee
The issue of succession planning can be critical when one considers the percentage of senior library staff [academic and technical] who will retire in the next few years. It must be pointed out that the retirement age of senior staff is 65 years.
If five of the seven staff members [ie 71.4%] will retire within eight years [between 2018 and 2026], or six [85.8%] will leave the system between 2018 and 2030, then The strategic importance of a successful program will not be overemphasized in the Fula Bay College Library. If he stayed until his own term ended in 2033 [fourty years after serving], the current supervisor had more than fifteen years to organize the house.
The first retirement in 2018 will provide the College with 44 years of service and is currently the head of the library journal department. He is unanimously known as the Fula Bay College Library Encyclopedia '.
Perhaps the most devastating loss is that Book Binder, now being replaced, is now actively discussing at the Institute of Information and Communication [INSLICS] at Fourah Bay College, where he teaches all conservation courses. After forty-five years of serving Bindery, who will replace him after retirement in 2023? This is indeed a problem. He has been in his career for 20 years and is a part-time lecturer at INSPICS. Sierra Leone has few other higher education institutions with functional placements. None of the other nine staff at Fourah Bay College has any protection status. In the same year [2023], it will also witness the service of another unique part of the Sierra Leone collection for forty-five years, which is an integral part of the Sierra Leone national title. He is strategically capable of nurturing potential librarians because he will graduate in 2017 from M. Phil, a library, archives and information researcher.
He will then become the current head of the cataloging department, who will serve for thirty-four years after retirement in 2025, the same number of years as the head of the problem/distribution department during the 2026 service period.
The dynamism of senior female academics is already evident because she currently represents the head of the cataloging department and oversees the US shelf, where she organizes many meaningful outreach programs. She is likely to be seen as a very dynamic public relations official who will contribute to more people in the forty-five years of service ending in 2030.
Senior support staff
Such staff will retire at the age of sixty. Unfortunately, this category lacks the right number of staff to replace the senior cadres who are finally retired. In fact, male staff will retire at the end of September this year, and he is currently in his second year after retirement.
Fortunately, female staff in this category recently graduated from INSLICS with a master's degree in library and information science. The staff here is now the Sierra Leone Archives Worker, the Chair of the Association of Librarians and Information Professionals [SLAALIP]. The semester will end in 2017. The M.Phil degree eventually pushed her to the senior academic category. The second female staff provided a lot of things to the library by 2032. She has completed several courses at INSLICS, including an undergraduate degree, a postgraduate diploma, and is currently working for her M.Phil. Administrative assistants are also likely to work in the library business. One of the male staff members has been identified as a potential leader because he has completed a postgraduate diploma in library and information research and will register M.Phil in the same subject at the 2016/17 session. After working in the library for two decades, he may have the opportunity to lead the entire library. Another female staff member [administrator] can also choose to pursue a career in library translation and be promoted to an important library position in the coming decades.
entry level employee
Twenty-one staff in this category constitute the bulk of the library staff. Since the most important resource of a library is its employees, it is necessary to concentrate a lot of resources and energy so that these workers can get little or no certificates. Retirement of such staff at the age of 60 gives library managers the opportunity to identify those who encourage them to further improve themselves and enter higher education institutions. Although the qualifications of these 21 employees are few or none at all, the future of the Fula Bay College Library is entirely in the hands of these potential labor forces.
A female staff member is currently enrolled at INSPICS and she wishes to complete her honours degree in the 2017/18 school year. Upon completion, the female staff member's expected position is a senior library assistant, and after further training at INSICS, she will eventually be transferred to a senior academic cadre. A male staff member is currently attending a diploma course at the Library, Information and Communication Institute at Fourah Bay College and hopes to graduate at the end of the 2017/18 school year. He will eventually be upgraded to a librarian assistant position. Another male staff member has been admitted to the School of Public Administration and Management [IPAM] and can read a bachelor's degree in public sector management. Upon completion, he will move to the Advanced Support category as an internship librarian. Such a position will give him the opportunity to register for a postgraduate diploma in library science at INSOLCS on a regular basis. Unfortunately, the female staff who completed the library research certificate in 2014/15 died on January 19, 2016.
Eight junior staff members will retire in the 1940s and eight additional staff will retire between 2019 and 2029. Some staff members are encouraged to participate in or re-enter the West Africa Advanced Certificate exam to qualify them for INSLICS or other departments. Another potential employee...
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